All things being equal, there's a half-in-half shot that you, reading this article, are a man, and in my experience, most men have at least once wished for a woman who they could theoretically program in whimsical (and entirely socially acceptable, of course) fashions. Yet over at Popular Science, Annalee Newitz observes that a preponderance of female robots are overly sexual and incredibly dangerous. Ranging from the evil Maria robot in Metropolis to Pris in Blade Runner (shown right) to the female Terminator in T3, PopSci has a gallery of fembots and a forum for selecting the People's Choice Fembot. [GT]
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